AP US History Unit Two The Quest For Independence Chapter 4

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AP US History

Unit Two The Quest for Independence Chapter 4

Text: Chapter 5

Great Issues Volume I: Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress p 404


William Pitt, Speech on the Stamp Act. P 413
Thomas Paine Common Sense P 450
Declaration of Independence p 468
Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and
Necessities of Taking up Arms p 444

Essay Questions:

1. “The American Revolution should really be called „the British Revolution.‟, because
marked changes in British Colonial policy were more responsible for the final political
division than were American actions” Assess the validity of this statement for the years
1763-1776

2. Evaluate the relative importance of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel
in 1775-76: parliamentary taxation, restriction of civil liberties, British military measures,
the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas

Thursday, 11 September: DBQ Exercise (French and Indian War)

Friday, 12 September: Britain Reasserts Control of the Colonies,


Independence Declared
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress p 404
William Pitt, Speech on the Stamp Act. P 413
Respond on the Blog

Monday, 15 September: Britain Reasserts Control of the Colonies,


Independence Declared
Part II- “This time, it’s personal”
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress p 404
William Pitt, Speech on the Stamp Act. P 413
Respond on the Blog

Tuesday, 16 September: Thomas Paine Common Sense P 450


Declaration of Independence p 468

Wednesday, 17 September Debate Day

Thursday, 18 September MC and Vocab. Test,

Friday 19 September Chapter 4 Essay Test


Chapter 4 Vocabulary (note- a few repeats from last unit)

salutary neglect Stamp Act Sons of Liberty


virtual representation Declaratory Act Committees of
non-importation Boston Massacre Correspondence
Navigation Acts Boston Tea Party Charles Townshend
King William‟s War Intolerable Acts Sam Adams
Queen Anne‟s War Quebec Act Ben Franklin
King George‟s War First Continental Patrick Henry
Fr. and Indian War Congress Thomas Hutchinson
Treaty of Paris (1763) Second Continental Lexington and
Pontiac‟s Rebellion Congress Concord
Proclamation of 1763 William Pitt Bunker Hill
Sugar Act George Grenville Declaration of
Independence

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